gutefrage.net, a German question-and-answer portal with over 6 million unique visitors and 60 million page impressions per month, has selected Schooner Information Technology, Inc.’s MySQL Appliance to deal with the scalability problems caused by quickly growing data requirements. Benefits gutefrage.net has received include:
- Reduced capital expense, power consumption, rack space and networking requirements from one Schooner MySQL Appliance replacing eight old servers
- High availability/disaster recovery features like replication, backup and restore, and RAID
- And a database performance increase of 30 percent
